Ava pulled back rather abruptly as she stumbled out of his hold and he let her. He didn't want to hold her in the first place. Aiden wasn't a giver, he was a taker through and through. The women he had slept with knew this very well. He only takes and f*cking loathe to give. He was this way and women still worshipped him. It was a f*cking chore to give her gentle kisses and make her feel special but it was important. He must take her high before shoving her off the edge and after that, she would keep falling with no bottom awaiting her. That would be her life. He was f*cking bored with her. He barely kissed her neck and she was resembling a tomato and stumbling on her shaking legs. He suppressed the roll of his eyes and got up. "I'll answer," He turned to walk to the main door but Ava stopped him with her hand on his arm. "Wait. It could be Mrs. Smith, my neighbor, I'll answer," He watched as she padded to the door and pulled it open. A squeal was heard before a fluff of bl
"So you're 26?" Annie asked and Aiden gave her a nod. "Head of the sales department? What are your qualifications?" "Business graduate." "Just that?" She asked. "Is that not enough?" Aiden answered with a question. "It depends on how much you earn-" "Annie!" Ava looked at her little sister stunned. She had a feeling that they made a mistake in sending her to the hostel. "What?" Annie played dumb which she was far from. She was a little devil. Sometimes Ava gets worried sick thinking about Annie's tendencies. If she was like this when she was this young, what would become of her when she gets older? "Where are your manners?" Ava chided. Annie cocked a brow at her sister. She was sitting opposite Aiden with her arms crossed and the whole situation felt like an interrogation. "I left them at the hostel," She answered coolly, earning a chuckle from Aiden. Ava was glad Aiden wasn't taking her words to his heart. "Do you like art?" Annie asked. "Not really," Aiden respo
Annie stayed for the next two days. She opposed the idea of staying back at home for no reason and said she'll be bored out of her mind so she offered to help her at the bakery. Ava agreed and then there was chaos in the kitchen. Ironically Annie and Vanessa vibed so well, almost too creepy to the fact that she thought they were long-lost sisters from the funfair. Annie helped her in the kitchen, thankfully Mrs. Williams wasn't there so they both enjoyed messing around and working together. They both talked in that crude language and made weird jokes. In conclusion, they both became fans of each other. While Vanessa kept saying where Ava was hiding her gem of a badass sister all this time. Ava made sure to make them both clean later before closing. Aiden came to pick them up and they had dinner at the downtown street restaurant. Annie loved their chicken momos so Aiden got a takeaway for her as well, in case she got hungry late at night. While Vanessa was telling her about her th
Ava stared at him. There was something different about Aiden. She couldn't put her finger on it but she was having these uneasy feelings cocooning her in their shell. "What's wrong?" She asked softly, eyeing him. "I just need you by my side. I had a quarrel at work which turned into a fight," He said and her eyes widened as she looked for any injuries. "Are you hurt?" Her voice sounded worried sick. "No, I'm fine." He dismissed the topic. She wanted to ask more but his mood seemed off so she didn't question him. She noticed they passed the turn of their complex. "Where are we going?" The words tumbled out of her lips on their own accord. "I want to give you a surprise. Something you'd love to see," There was this sinister edge in his deep voice or maybe she was being too paranoid because he was cold to her earlier and ordered her as if he owned her. She hated it and she'd talk to him on this matter but only when he wasn't in such a bad mood. She didn't say anything. Ava rel
That night played in her head on a loop, again and again. Those haunting eyes that glowed like flames stared down at her. Ava had shoved that haunting memory to the back of her head and never mulled over it ever again until tonight. It was like she was back in that alley, staring at the mobs holding down an innocent man. The thunder rumbled. "Earth to, Ava."She flinched. Her fear-filled gaze locked with his. The man in front of her wasn't the Aiden she fell in love with and knew all this time. He wasn't that kind, gentle, caring man. Instead of his place stood the monster who approached her with the very intent to destroy her. The revelation had knocked the ground off its axis for her. The earth seemed to pause as if it forgot the basic function of rotating around its axis. Her lungs gave up on her, refusing to take in oxygen. She wasn't physically harmed yet but his words had punched her guts. As if he reached for her soul, fisted it, and wrung it out of her. A warm trail on h
Her heart almost jumped to her throat and twisted knots formed in her belly as she gazed at his veiny massive arms and those big calloused hands that frightened her. Those same hands she loved so much as she kept holding them and kissing his knuckles. His words rattled the existence of her very being. Ava's eyes widened and her face ashen when he strode towards her like a predator. To escape she took a step back only to gasp when her back collided with the door.She looked at the door over her shoulder with teary eyes and when she looked ahead all her breath was knocked out of her system finding him standing in her personal space like a deadly beast. The mere aura surrounding him was so ominous and dark that she couldn't breathe as she stood there holding her breath and trying her very best to evaporate in thin air."Breath." He commanded in that gruff voice making her chin wobble and lips quiver as she took in a sharp breath from her parted lips.Her teary eyes were dead set on hi
She didn't sleep a blink, throughout the night she sat on her bed wide awake and kept glancing at the door in fear that he would barge in any second. Ava didn't go to work. She called in sick and went to the police station. She had thought hard about everything. Cried her heart out and then gathered the scattered pieces of her heart. He confessed to her that he killed her father. She wouldn't let him off the hook so easily. He would pay for killing her father. She'll drag him to the court if she had to. She also concluded that Aiden was filthy rich. That car, that mansion, everything belonged to him. He rented the apartment beside hers just to get close to her. Everything was a part of his bullshit plan. Their first meeting was at the bakery. It was all a lie, the more she mulled over it the more it hurt. There was a possibility that he might've lied about his name and job. The job was a lie for sure, thankfully she had his pictures, the ones she snapped without his knowledge, th
"I'll give you two options. Decapitation or I shoot your brains out." "No..." She whimpered. "None," Her voice came out choked. Offense sat across his features. He looked lethal. Cold. Murderous. He tsked. "Don't be a bad sport. Come on, choose." She couldn't respond. Ava was traumatized by his mere presence. The continuous loop of stress, anxiety, and panic was messing with her head, leaving her thoughts scrambled and her body numb but despite all that her fear knew no bounds. "Don't make me repeat myself." She let out a choked sob shaking her head. "I can't... I can't choose." She was on the verge of hyperventilation. "That's sad." "Come on get up." He said rising to his mighty height and dread enveloped her as she watched him with haunting eyes. "What did I f*cking say about repeating myself?" Ava stumbled to her feet as he began walking out and she hesitantly teetered behind him. The senior officer bowed at him and the junior officer gave her stuff back to her. S